If you're looking to get your food storage goal done...I can help you. And I probably won't even be mouthy! Just go over to my contact and fire me an email.
I'm finally putting ALLLLLL of my photos from the last oh...five years....into photo book form.
It's some LOTTA work.
But they are such a rewarding project.
Once I did this for all of the parents (and one for us) for Christmas...
I was hooked.
It's a very long process. And a lot of hard work. Because I edit EVERY photo.
And it's gonna be pricey.
But I don't mind. I think the quality is worth it!
on another note...
I learned something today as I was trying to post my iphone photos. I've been using it WAY too much for a camera. Yes it's so handy to have but it does NOT replace my Canon! And I need to pick that guy up way more again! You know....so I can have a pile of photos to make a photo book out of! LOL!
I'm determined to finish this goal this year because NEXT year I'm going to do "Project 365" and I don't want all of these looming over me.
So I've had something on my New Year's list since the first year I got married.
That was almost 8 years ago.
This year no more excuses.
This year I'm not putting it off.
This year I'm not going to worry or stress about it.
I will NOT be entering the year 2013 having to put this on the list......AGAIN!
Food Storage!!
Enter....
I posted briefly about this on my blog a few weeks ago where I shared this video.
Go ahead.
Watch it.
I can wait....
(Yeah I'm lame)
I'm posting about it again because I have sooooo many people with questions, interest and excitement that I just have to!
Because I'm not the only one who wants to GET THIS CRAP DONE!
Shelf Reliance has just opened up business in Canada on December 1st. It's pretty exciting for us here in Canada who want to get our food storage, want good quality and an easyyummy way to do it.
So I signed up as a consultant with the hope of just getting my food storage. And if any friends or family want to be able to order it I can do it for them. If in the end all I get is the food (which is so so very good) and my year's food storage then I'm happy.
My sister in-law was telling me of her battles, efforts and GREAT frustrations on trying super hard to get her long term food storage going.
She told me she's been preparing and praying for this answer. And for reals...so have I. I had no idea where to start with food storage. I don't have the time to be running all over the place looking for food, to then purchase proper cans and containers to store it. And to then take the time to do the canning etc.... AND we like to eat fruits, veggies and whole foods in our house. It's hard to find "storable" food that is good for you. I didn't want to store food that we're not going to eat!!!
'Cause that's umm...dumb.
To top it off the recommendations for long term food storage usually are, oats, beans, wheat etc. I'm sorry...but if you have to live off of your food storage...you're hurtin' enough!!! You don't want to be eating that food. And you want your children to have food they love and are used to having that is GOOD for them in times that are hard and scary.
That is truth my friends.
Because so many people are approaching me about this I'm going to do something I said there was no way I'd do....I'm going to have the occasional party. Yep I said occasional. I have to work myself up to that. If there is big demand (which I'm scared there is already EEEEK LOL) then I'll do more as long as it works with my family. Not into sales. Which may surprise you by this post. Ha ha! But I'm not really trying to sell anyone on this.
I just feel so excited and so passionate about it.
It may or may not help that I received my first shipment today of food and I want to curl up in a ball with a movie and down a #10 can of freeze dried pineapple and freeze dried corn and down it!
It is sooooo freaking good!
It's like "word to yo MOTHER" good.
Just sayin'.
Okay...that's all I'm going to say today.
I know I always hope to do more postings on this blog. So when I say this, I hope that I can squeeze in the time to do it....but I PLAN to do a series on this. Just so you can have information.
(I may even do videos because...it's just easier)
I know the first thing that people barf at me (yeah I said 'barf') is the price.
Well I'm going to cover that in my next post...because it's really doable.
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In other news I have tons of things I've been doing around this house...as has that super fine husband of mine....that I want to share. But I gotta take photos and I'm hoping to get to that someday...you know...soon-ish.
toodles!
PS- If I haven't said enough and that ticks you off and you want more information...email me and we can chitty chat about it.
I'm a little late on this but this is for the family peoples back home that want to see this cute baby of mine turn ONE!!
I did the super cute theme I've been seeing all over Pinterest of "The Very Hungry Caterpillar".
Of course there was a TON of stuff that I had hoped I could do. But real life set in and I was pleased with how much I was able to accomplish.
And that only happened because my Mom was here to help me do it all and to keep me sane and remember that I love to actually do this sort of thing.
This party making/planning junk.
Like my banner? I may have made that myself. If anyone wants one email me :)
Turning one is a big milestone. And in our house our babies seem to walk before this day so it's super cute to see them all of a sudden transform into a big boy lickity split!
Sometimes I do rainbow cakes and am glad that winging it works :)
This is one of the very few family photos we have out there. Problem with being a "photographer" (because I'm not one at all - hence the quotation marks) is it's hard to get family photos...and ones of myself that are decent.
Don't let him fool you...I think he liked the cake. Both my kids were not fans of the messy cake eating. That's what happens where you're a clean freak wanna be like me.
See above - Cute Kid when he turned one...he was like......uh...get that stuff off my finger please!
Wow they look alike in these two photos! Don't always see that much resemblance. Only when they cry and throw a fit...then they look a like :)
All in all it was good times with good friends and family and I hope he had fun. I also learned that Christmas prep has to be done WELL in advance as I like to keep Christmas things out of November so that it doesn't blend in with his birthday. Everyone deserves to feel special on their big day!
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In other news...I've signed up for Shelf Reliance as a consultant. It's a way for me to stop putting food storage on my New Years Resolution list.......AGAIN!!!
I'll chat more about it someday soon when I know more about it myself. But here's a video if you're looking to store your food long term and want it to not suck and be able to use it now.
I took a break from the computer yesterday...but not the entire day. I think I'm going to do that soon. Maybe a couple of days. There are reasons. I hope I'll share them with you. I think I need to vent it off.
Hey did you know that I cannot find ONE Remembrance Day subway art anywhere????
So I made one...
So how about you can have it too to go with all the other subway art fabulousness.
Download HERE - it prints 8x10 but I can be persuaded to do one 11x17 if wanted :)
Let me know if it doesn't work for you guys...I know some had trouble with my Recipe Cards
SO I've been up since 5:17am...after waking up at 12:30am...and 2:48am...get my drift?
I plan to have an awesome day anyway (I'm not sure if you all know this by now but I don't do well with no sleep and I haven't slept well in years...just sayin' ;) ).
So because I plan to have an awesome day, I needed to get myself a bit inspired to work hard today at my goals to get my house fabulous.
Nothing better then looking at something I've been able to accomplish in the past few weeks. (with the help of a certain Laura Croft friend of mine that is)
So before...30's wood panels.
After!!
(Please ignore the ceiling there where I'm pretty sure that would be the leak that is the reason we had a brand new roof on our house when we purchased it. It's gonna need a paint job. Oh and the black outlet...that needs to be changed as well.)
This took a lot of time to decide what I was going to do. At first I thought...paint it white. I even thought...could we make this a legit built in rather then a weird wooden wall? But that's too much work on a list of 482 items to do in this house. I also thought strip it and try to stain it a super light oak color. Nope...wouldn't work. Then the lady at Home Hardware after describing it to her (we've gotten to know her pretty well over the past year) thought paint it dark brown. I wasn't having it...and told her that I didn't think she really could get a vision for it. So you know what she did.......she came over to my house to look at it. No joke. And she suggested just painting it the wall color so that it doesn't stick out so much and to go with the modern theme I have going on.
I love it! It makes such a HUGE difference. I even was able to surprise Hot Husband with it. He loved it too!
I'm not sure what I'm going to do with it though. I want to add some decor to it but I'm still pondering it. Not sure if I can search pinterest for "weird, 30's wooden panel in entrance that's now painted gray" and get results. HA maybe I should try!
Any suggestions out there? I think my style is modern eclectic so...yeah. Ready....GO!!!
PS-Wait til I do the other wall like that...it's going to be fantastic!
So we have a couple major events coming up that we're not so patiently waiting for.
Inspired by this post I thought the Cute Kid and I would do a count down chain.
It was intense work.
I really had to help him with this because we had a lot of rings to make and he was putting his all into each one and was rapidly "getting so so so bery tired Mommy".
I thought it was also a great opportunity to get him to work on his colors and patterns.
I think he did a really good job. I don't like it when people legit brag that their kids are super smart or way advanced but for reals...this kid surprises me daily.
Makes me realize I need to get my butt into gear and really start to challenge him more.
I think it turned out great and he's having a ball ripping one off each day. The first marker is until Halloween. He counts multiple times a day.
I think it's a great visual marker and will save me from having this cute little bugger BUG me everyday saying "is it Halloween yet?". I think I'll be using it for countdowns always...until he gets bored of it I guess.
I feel bad for those of you that don't have Verge as a neighbor...her lemon squares alone say it all...I might be eating one right now.
Verge or as cute kid calls her 'Berge' (it's okay...her hearing isn't the best so she doesn't know the difference) told me today that she heard something about snow in the next week.
I've been bawling my eyes out all night. Hiccups and all.
No not really....
But I thought that I best get moving on my pretty fall photos.
Because around here we love us some leaves...
And in our backyard we get one or two of them on the ground. Or maybe a few more...just enough to bulldoze them.
I even found a little bit of red leaves. Not many of those around here. Or at least not like in Nova Scotia.
But on an exceptionally warm day. As in...31 degrees outside at 4pm. (And yes I bragged about it on facebook.)
We decided to have a little leaf toss!
Oh my word look at Cute Kids face in the above photo.....he's sooooo happy!
Neighbor down the street - her little's came for some play...they let me paparazzi them with a smile and everything.
I had to get a few of little Ella here...
It's just nice to have a girl around...
I'm going to crawl in my bed and die now at the thought of snow.
Toodles.
Oh and don't comment. I hate that sort of thing ;)
